Best Geek movies of all time
Geeky, Home & Auto April 23rd, 2006
We polled our authors as to their favorite Geek movies of all time.
Here's what they came up with:
The Technocrat (in no particular order)
- The Fifth Element
- The Lawnmower Man
- The Matrix
- Real Genius
- Flight of the Navigator
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Short Circuit
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Atariboy
- StarWars
- Saving Private Ryan
- Erik the Viking
- Goldeneye
- Battle Royale
- Tron
- Wargames
- Hackers
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Weird Science
- Doom
- Ghostbusters
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Small Soldiers
- Total Recall
Entries
April 24th, 2006 at 6:44 am
i helped out atariboy alot with his list of movies!!!
April 24th, 2006 at 7:06 am
What about Firewall? Lol.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:21 am
or firefox, i shud have thought of that one beforehand
April 24th, 2006 at 8:26 am
ooh, firefox, wargames and total recall, forgot about those. Johnny Mnemonic might be on there too, now that I think about it…
April 24th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
There are some good films in those lists: the matrix, star wars, flight of the navigator and some crap ones, Ghost Busters please! And i’ve never understood 2001, it was a highly influential film though for the science fiction genre!
April 24th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
I can’t believe only one listed Real Genius!
April 25th, 2006 at 7:10 am
I would have put nearly all of them up, but we’re not big on dupes here!
April 25th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
thank you beth!!
April 26th, 2006 at 9:23 am
* Clerks (come on, doesn’t anyone here read comics
* High Fidelity (for audiofile geeks)
* Forbidden Planet (Anne Francis is hot!)
* Star Wars
* Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (one of the first movies to feature a kewl geek)
* Real Genius
cheers,
Cameron
April 29th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
I was staring at my DVD’s today while the TV was on, and realized I forgot Gattica. Shame on me!
June 14th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Thanks for writing the article. I really loved the read.